VMware vSphere

High availability offers you protection against hardware failure and operating system malfunction. This service permanently monitors your virtual machines, so if one machine goes down, high availability ensures that it's rebooted automatically on another server on your Private Cloud. Your VM is available again within minutes and without any human intervention whatsoever.

With vMotion, you can move virtual machines running on one host to another in just one click. There's no service downtime as your VM active memory and operating status are transferred immediately. What's more, the end-user will not be affected, for example by scheduled maintenance, as the network is also virtualised and the VMs retain their network identity and connections.

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) optimises your Private Cloud infrastructure, without any intervention on your part. Whatever your activity peaks, this feature automatically distributes the load of your VMs between your servers. So, you can start production while minimising the costs of the cluster.

Centralise the provisioning, administration and monitoring of your virtual machines using a network cluster combination. The vNetwork Distributed Switch ensures a quality of service (QoS) to different VMware network features, by allocating a maximum bandwidth.

Move your virtual machines disk files from one storage space to another without any interruption. vMotion storage guarantees the integrity of these operations so the service remains available during scheduled storage maintenance. This feature is also very useful for migrating to new filers.

Usage won't put a strain on your projects any more thanks to the Hot Add feature enabling you to increase the processor and memory resources allocated to your VMs. The operation is carried out instantly, without any service disruption. It's really simple - all you have to do is move the cursor!

Updating your hosts is child's play with Update Manager! All tasks are automated and a dashboard provides an overview of the status of updates and patches applied on your Private Cloud. Managing updates is thus made considerably easier, while protecting your infrastructure against bugs and security loopholes.

Protect your Private Cloud with ease using the vStorage API. These programming interfaces enable you to back up all the VMs on your infrastructure, from a centralised backup or a VM. As a result, there's no need to manage backup agents on every machine or host any more.

Thin Provisioning decreases your storage requirements through dynamic allocation of disk space. Your VMs will have the right amount of disk space without their performance being affected. Your investment and operating costs will also be reduced due to the money you save on storage.

Compress and share your VMs using the VMware Marketplace exchange platform. Find hundreds of preconfigured VMs ready to be deployed. What's more, .ovf files can be executed immediately for easy deployment.

Storage I/O Control allows you to define different rules and preferences for managing the quality of your virtual machine I/O. You are thus guaranteed access hierarchy on a shared storage system.

With Network I/O Control, configure your rules and strategies for every virtual machine and application for permanent availability. As soon as congestion is detected, resources are automatically allocated to high priority applications.